Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...International Aviation Show, auspices of Aviators' Post, American Legion, Grand Central Palace, Manhattan...
When Minister of Marine Rollin pirouetted, his gesture swept a Grand Salon in slick, mirror-like birdseye maple, softly lit by carved glass Lalique electroliers. Though he had just exhorted Frenchmen to build ugly cargo boats, M. Rollin waxed ecstatic a few minutes later at a unique new feature of the Paris, proudly displayed by dynamic General Director Maurice Tillier of the French Line. On no other ship, claimed he, is there an entire deck devoted exclusively to grand luxe suites each with a separate, private promenade-veranda on which the dogs and children of rich passengers may do their...
...good picture, quite certain to bring its makers (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ) substantial profits. It was notable because the 100% technicolor (see col. 3) was an improvement on previous color films. Too, it fills any huge auditorium with much the best voice yet known to cinemaddicts, the voice of Grand Opera Baritone Lawrence Tibbett. Also, it gives the voice a volume never before transmitted through the microphone except in the case of the noises emitted by Al (Sonny Boy) Jolson...
...Manhattanites had last week-a tarpaulin-covered motorboat left all night on a truck at a Park Avenue corner. Many another night and all day many another glistening, rivet-new motorboat was being carted through the streets. Gapers who followed these land-hauled boats found they were bound for Grand Central Palace, there to bask in blue and silver brilliance for the 25th (Silver Anniversary) New York Motorboat Show...
...mail services and for the passage of Canadian mail through U. S. territory. The existing U. S.-Canadian routes are between Montreal and Albany, Toronto and Buffalo and Vancouver and Seattle. Next month a new line will connect Minneapolis-St. Paul to Winnipeg by way of Fargo and Grand Forks, N. Dak. As soon as that route operates smoothly, Great Falls, Mont., and Regina, Sask., will be joined. Those routes are for international mail. The purely Canadian mail will leave Canada at Windsor, Ont., travel from Detroit to Chicago, to Minneapolis; thence to Regina...